This study judges the actions of Israel toward Palestine since October 7, 2023, as genocide and proves this through four contextual frameworks. In the relational context, it emphasizes the extreme asymmetry of power between the occupying state and the occupied territory, demonstrating that such fundamental power imbalance constitutes a basis for violence. In the historical context, it reveals the unilateral military, political, economic, and cultural annihilation of Palestinians over 77 years through major violent incidents. In the legal context, it demonstrates the conformity of Israeli violent acts to the definition of genocide stipulated in the United Nations Genocide Convention by conducting a comparative analysis with legal provisions.
In the violence mechanism context, this study identifies six mechanisms— ideologization, classification, dehumanization, organization, propagandization, and annihilation—derived from twentieth-century genocide cases. Consequently, this research contends that Israel’s violence against Palestinians, particularly since October 2023, constitutes explicit genocide and should be recorded as one of the most egregious genocides in world history alongside the Nazi Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, the Cambodian Killing Fields, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Nanjing Massacre.